The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-07
enaetments. and iHritative recrimina-

| Ill.
I 1t is said that Talleyrand, being shout
to bring Rousseau to dine with him. re-.
quested his wife to read that authors
last work in order that she might be
able to converse with him in regard tn
it. The French statesman's feeling NAV
be imagined when at table. Madsme
ITalleyrand compliaented her guest on
his work and added, "What a pity you
introduced that good creature Friday. SO
late" She had read Robinson Cruse,e
Incidents re-occur.
Thus it is that some of our journalists,
10th ladies and gentlemen, and some of
our ultra prohibition brethren have read
'sThe House that Jack Built for Mr..
Davis's letter. They pay not the slight
est attention to the principles involved
or to the contents of the letter. No
matter where they start, they wind up
| in the classic house that Jack built.
| Whether it is the maid all forlorn. the
COW with the crumpled horn, or the dog
/ that worried the cat, or the rat, all
make for the house that Jack built, and
hold grand pow-wow, never thinking
that a procession of carpet-bags may
pass through the dear old house-and,
entirely forgetting how hard it was to
gain the privilege of minding our own
business and getting others to do like
wise. Who desires to repeat that ten
| years experienced II would again open
the ehasm between the North and the
Sodth.
| Unfortunately some of the women of
I the State have not shown themselves
free from those tempestuous passions
which are swaying the souls of men. IL
their mistaken zeal they have descended
from the high pedestals upon which
Southern chivalry has placed them, and
were seen at some of the precincts
"souping" negroes to the polls and
| lemonading them back again, while the
"toddy" administered by the "anti'
just previously gave relish to the good
dinner the darkey's sharpness had won
| for him.
1t matters not what the laws or Gus
toms of country may be, its morals
are decided by its women. The self
respect of man is based upon the regard
and esteem in which he holds his female
friends and relatives. The pride of a
Southern mans heart has ever been his
! women. Hon. Jefferson Davis is no ex-
ception to this rule. Every thing he
ever said or wrote of woman, from the
speeches of his early manhood to the
dedication of the Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government" has been in
their praise. Il they had faults he
seemed never to have found them,
although, so far-seeing in all else. Yet,
an open letter ipvades the sacred pre-
cincts of his home and drags therefrom,
in collateral censnre his beloved wife
and 1oYeshtar rHhof lat4ar
q woman's pen.
Mrs Smell tells him what she thought
of him, what she thinks of him now.
What she told the dear Northern
women; how they will hold her respon-
sible, and what she will tell them now
how he had acted in the past and how
he should have acted in the present and
future; the good he had done the coun-
try and the harm he now does it. and
regrets that the dear lady of the Con-
federaoy and the dear daughter of the
Confederacy did not persuade him mot
to write the words which have so rapidly
become the rousing battle-song of the
liquor traffic's soldiers"
Now if there is any song of the kind
in Mr.. Davis letter 1T needs locating. The
writer also states that she writes the
letter more in spirit Of grieved sur
prise than of angry resentment" Why
should she feel either2 There was no
necessity of surprise, because his princi,
pies have always been we'll known, and
it seems zealously unreasonable to
cherish angry resentmeA. where there is
nothing to resent. 1t is merely differ
ence OF opinion. In fact the open letter
has no bearing, when placed beside it,
on the ex-President's Texas letter, but
simply sugar coated censure fo- not
being trained up in the way he should
go.
But now comes the surprise of all
surprises, The Voice, paper published
in New York, containing regular
Papal Bull of Recommendation, falling
from the pen "of the same Mississippi
woman" which purports to be an
endorsement of an editorial in that
paper, under the caption of ''lt must be
| fatility." Suffice to say it is simply the
hackneyed accusations of being the
cause of the war and keeping up sec
| tional hostiiities We Of Mississippi
must feel this dart.
This letter of Mrs. Srell's in the
Eoiee, of August Is, ought to be pub
lished by our State press generally, III
order that our people may know how
they are represented to people of the
North by one of our number. | have
only room to Gull few items from It.
1t differs in its tone from the, 'one which
i appeared in the Rfcdltal,,e, and says that
the Texa letter must be Providential :
therefore it is good happening.
1.-TWO blows" she says 'are struck. One
sewers the old issues of the war; and
the other makes the Democratic party
shoulder the liquor traffic"
That is a singular statsnent, when
the old issues wefe reversed many years
ago and the Democratic party is unit
on Temperance and largely in favor OF
Prohibition.
The writer Also says: "Mr. Davis
perhaps, unconsciously to himself, has
kept alive the feelings engendered by
the war" Great Cesar's ghost! What
a statement TO come from Southern wo
man, a Mississippi woman-the woman
who stood upon the rostrum at Natchez
when the Press Association met there
and paid the elegant poetic tribute OF
purity and truth to the father Sage si
. Beauvoir.
She says : prominent Southern
preacher said id the pulpit: "I blush tt
fsay my father was his, (Mr. Davis
friend)." Perhaps Mr.. Davis Glushed
fo- a dead friend Eho had son thai
,, used his pulpit privileges to secure al
,, Isudience, q will not say congregation
! for that word is used for those WHIT
listen to gospel preaching) to abuse any
, man.
Another intense Southerner said: q
) once thought that if ever Mr.. Davi
.. . came to my town, I'd send my littl,
children to scatter flowers in his way
Now, if he were to come, I'd cay: "Wife
children, Mr.. Davis is bare stdg closel,
lin the house today"
Although Mrs. Smell SAYS that ,h
! labove quoted remarks indicate tn
+ popular verdict in Mississippi" it viii
! be hard to make any one believe tina
4 there is woman in our much love.
!, State who would obey such a contracted
I fanatical man as that. No, she'd tax
her flowers and her children and joii
. the enthusiastic multitude. It has beer
tried. Women as general thing do no
I yield their household gods on q difierenc
! Iof opinion.
81 Tie correspondent from Mississippi t,
: the Northern press also says the ex
: President himself 'scut the cord tina
bound the South to him." Is that cor
lcut2 Had he been given to tergiverss
ton and vascillation it might have been
As it is, it never can be, and indignan
Mississippi hurls back the missiles tha
I are thrown at the head of her true an
Q gifted, honored and beloved son. Sh
accords to him the privileges of libert
: granted TO others, of feeling and speai